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In a move that is sure to get liberal snowflakes rushing to their safe spaces faster than ever, Princeton University is now encouraging students
to report “problematic experiences based on [their] identity.” This
means that if students find themselves in a situation that makes them
feel offended or uncomfortable in anyway, they can – and should,
according to Princeton – go tell somebody about it, even if it is
something that normally wouldn’t result in disci

It’s said that about 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions are abandoned by the second week of February.1
This means if you made one for 2018, there’s a good chance it may
already have failed. There’s also a sizable number of people who set no
goals at all, New Year’s resolutions or otherwise, in part because they
may not realize the importance of goal setting and in part because they
may not know how to do it.2
There are other reasons why you may avoid goal setting as well,

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Beginning shortly after President Donald J. Trump defeated Hillary
Clinton in the 2016 election, Americans were treated to a steady diet of
stories from the American Pravda media claiming that he “colluded” with
the Russian government to “steal the election.”
For months information meant to substantiate the claim, made in the
absence of any real evidence, was “leaked” to various news outlets known
to be friendly to Clinton, Democrats, and every known enemy

Researchers from the Imperial College London studied 20
participants with depression, all of whom were unresponsive to
traditional antidepressants. They recruited participants from this group
to take psilocybin; 19 out of the 20 participants were given two doses
of psilocybin.

As the team interviewed the participants, some of them reported that they felt their brains were “rebooted.”

Robin Carhart-Harris, head of psychedelic research at
the college, said that one patient detailed that his brain felt like it
underwent a defragmentation process similar to a computer hard drive. He
also explained that the effect of psilocybin on the default network is
similar to “taking a system and temporarily scrambling it, then allowing
it to reform.”

Carhart-Harris and his team took scans of the
participants’ brains before and after the psilocybin treatment. They
discovered that the default network mode of the study subjects were in a
more stable condition after the treatment.

The study was conducted as a composite treatment, in which the active ingredient treatment was combined with psychotherapy.

“The drug works to open a window of opportunity, and if in that
window we provide a comfortable setting and empathetic [therapists] are
with them to guide them through the experience, it can help them to get
better,” Carhart-Harris expressed.

However, the researchers noted that almost half of the patients
experienced difficult or awful situations during their treatment, but
felt “relief” afterwards.

“If you want to get really fit, you might have to go for a bit of
pain in order to get really fit. Maybe the same thing is true for mental
health,” he said, comparing psilocybin treatment to physical exercise.

“This isn’t magic or some kind of wishful thinking on part of the researchers, we can see its effects,” Carhart-Harris said.

The study also revealed that psilocybin and other
psychedelics have the potential to be used for treating alcoholism and
addictions, yet use of psychedelics are still prohibited in most
countries.

Earlier studies on magic mushroom and depression

The new research supports the findings of two previous studies that
also found the positive effect of psilocybin in patients with anxiety
and depression. Both studies, published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology,
revealed that a single dose of psilocybin reduced depression and
anxiety caused by cancer and its effect can last for up to eight months,
as reported by The Guardian.

“I think it is a big deal both in terms of the findings and in terms
of the history and what it represents. It was part of psychiatry and
vanished and now it’s been brought back,” said Stephen Ross, lead author
of the New York University (NYU) study and director of addiction
psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center.

In addition, the results were the same in earlier studies in healthy people.

“In spite of their unique vulnerability and the mood disruption that
the illness and contemplation of their death has prompted, these
participants have the same kind of experiences, that are deeply
meaningful, spiritually significant, and producing enduring positive
changes in life and mood and behavior,” said Roland Griffins, professor
of the departments of psychiatry and neuroscience and lead author of the
Johns Hopkins University study.